AMD vs Intel
The Intel AMD antitrust case has been delayed and now won't be heard until 2010.
The case is being heard in the District Court in Delaware and will now start in February 2010 rather than April 2009.
The original case was brought in 2005 and accused Intel of offering discounts to computer makers who pledged not to use AMD chips …

Two major antivirus companies have been fined by New York's attorney general for charging customers without their authorisation or consent. The companies have promised to change the way they renew customer subscriptions.
Symantec and McAfee have said that they will provide customers with more information about product renewals …

Dell will cough up $4m to the New York Attorney General's Office to resolve charges of "fraudulent and deceptive business practices" related to its finance and service promotions.
The deal follows the New York Supreme Court's backing of the NY Attorney General's claims that "Dell had engaged in fraud, false advertising, …

After a legal threat from New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, Comcast has joined the grandstanding American politician's quixotic crusade against online child pornography.
In signing Cuomo's anti-child porn "code of conduct," the country's second largest ISP has agreed to shutdown certain Usenet newsgroups containing " …

Tagged.com has paid $750,000 in penalties to New York and Texas after the states accused the social networking outfit of abusing its members' contact lists and spamming millions with deceptive promotional emails.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Monday his office reached an agreement with Tagged.com to pay $500,000 in " …

Intel has been fined $25m (26bn Won) by the South Korean Fair Trade commission for breaching fair trade rules.
The chipmaker was found guilty of offering unfair subsidies to Samsung and Trigem Computer Inc if they promised to only buy Intel chips and froze out rival AMD.
But Intel dismissed the charges. Bruce Sewell, Intel …

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has threatened Comcast with legal action if it doesn't fall in line with his quixotic campaign against online child pornography. And the American ISP is set to do exactly what he wants.
Over the past several weeks, Cuomo strong-armed five stateside ISPs into signing his very own anti-child- …

Symantec and McAfee have agreed to pay $375,000 apiece to settle charges they charged fees against customer credit cards without authorization.
Under a settlement announced Wednesday by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, the antivirus software makers also agreed to more clearly disclose any automatic renewal fees and …

AT&T has dealt another blow to the internet relic known as Usenet.
Sometime next month, the American telcom giant will terminate its entire newsgroup service. "Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be offering access to the Usenet netnews service," reads a note sent to AT&T and posted on the company's …

Let it be said that the state of New York cares for oppressed minorities.
Word arrives from The AP that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has come to the rescue of the state's Comcast subscribers, though they account for less than half of one per cent of all cable-connected New York broadbanders.
In the wake of the FCC's …

If anyone needs any further proof that there's no love lost between chipmakers Nvidia and Intel, they need look no further than a cartoon collection linked from Nvidia's corporate blog, nTersect
The small but growing compendium of anti-Intel funnies, snarkily titled "Intel's Insides", seems specifically intended to boil blood in …

The US Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with a California public-relations firm in which the company agrees to stop posting reviews on Apple's iTunes Store of their clients' games, and take down the ones already posted.
The FTC characterizes the reviews, which weren't identified as being written by the firm's …

With his heavy-handed crusade against online child pornography, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has already crushed more than a little free speech, all but destroying America's connection to Usenet newsgroups. And now he's eying ISP-level porn-blocking hardware that would run roughshod over the country's wiretapping laws …

A jewellery company which allegedly bid on its own eBay auctions to "illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 per cent" will pay $400,000 (£204,000) in "restitution and penalties", Reuters reports.
The New York state attorney general's office said Ezra Dweck of EMH Group and his employees made over 232,000 bids on auctions in …

New York state is joining the growing line to probe Intel's paperwork over charges of anticompetitive behavior against chip rival AMD.
The office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today said both Intel and AMD have been served subpoenas seeking documents and information regarding Intel's pricing strategy.
Cuomo will …

A facelift firm is being slapped with a $300,000 fine by New York state for flooding the internet with fake positive reviews about itself.
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said the case is believed to be the first in the US to punish so-called "astroturf" marketing.
Under a settlement deal announced Tuesday, the cosmetic …

Facebook officials have been subpoenaed by New York's top law enforcement official after a preliminary review revealed "significant defects in the site's safety controls" designed to shield underage users from sexual predators.
"The [office of the attorney general] is concerned that in Facebook's efforts to grow, the company …

Social networking site Facebook has been ordered to turn over information on whether registered sex offenders have set up profiles on its site.
The Attorney General's office of New Jersey has supoenaed the popular social network, along with 11 other social networking sites, ordering them to release the information.
Facebook …

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The US Federal Trade Commission ruined Intel's Christmas by hitting the firm with wide ranging charges of anticompetitive business practices.
The Feds also charge that Intel rigged its compilers to put AMD at a disadvantage and that it is trying to smother its rivals in the graphics chip business.
Intel has rejected the charges …

AT&T Wireless and Travelocity have continued to pay for ads that get served up by some of the net's more notorious networks despite a legally binding promise to refrain from pitching crud to web denizens.
Adware buster Ben Edelman came to that conclusion after meticulously documenting ads being displayed on computers sullied by …

Little more than two months after forking over one million smackers to settle accusations it was guilty of false advertising, Verizon Wireless has accused one of its biggest competitors of false advertising.
On Wednesday, Verizon slapped a federal lawsuit on Alltel Corp., insisting that Alltel is making untrue claims about …

Samsung will pay $90m to bring to an end lawsuits brought against it by 41 US states as a result of its role in a worldwide DRAM price-fixing cartel. It will also aid the plaintiffs in ongoing legal action against its co-conspirators.
Samsung, Elpida, Hynix and Infineon were all found guilty by the US Department of Justice of …

Supercomputer maker Cray doesn't talk much about the systems software that runs on its massively parallel, midrange, or entry HPC gear, but it probably will start doing so more because of the work it has done to make its non-standard XT boxes look a little less proprietary as far as Linux applications are concerned.
The company …